Amazing Power

The power of God has brought creation into being.  It has been a mighty tool when the Hebrews were threatened in battle against its enemies.  It has brought rain and rainbow, fire and wind, provision and deliverance.  From one page to the next we see it at work in the pages of the Scripture.  The power of God was at work in Bethlehem, on a hill called Golgatha, and in an upper room of Jerusalem.   There is no power on earth to which we can compare the power of God.  It is the essence of the life of all that is and is the very thing which will sustain it until eternity takes hold and carries it forward.     

When the Apostle Paul wrote that the gospel is "...the power of God for salvation, to everyone  who has faith, to the Jew first and also to the Greek"  (Romans 1:16), he lifted up still another dimension of this unending and eternal power which flows from the hand of God.  What humanity cannot accomplish in its own strength and through its own ingenuity, God has brought about through the gift of His Son who willingly made a sacrifice of Himself on the cross for the sake of all of us.     

No one is ineligible.  No one is too unworthy.  No one is outside the provision of God.  The salvation of God is universally available to all of us, each and every one of us.  It is as the Apostle declared a gift for all who have faith.  While it is a gift given to all, it is not a gift given with a requirement to receive.  Faith is the human act of reaching toward what God desires to give.  The power which held back the waters of the Red Sea and thundered on the mountain is the same power which takes away the sin we cannot master and handle.  It is the power which brings forgiveness and pardon.  It is the power which restores what is dead and heals what is broken.  This is the amazing and incomparable power of God at work to save us all from all that is within that has the power to destroy.